Around ten sailors volunteered at the start of the race to release imposing Argo beacons into the sea.
Yoann Richomme opened the way on Tuesday morning by taking an imposing beacon weighing around twenty kilos out of his cockpit before throwing it into the sea. Eight other sailors (Oliver Heer, Kojiro Shiraishi, Sam Goodchild, Sébastien Marsset, Guirec Soudée, Maxime Sorel , Szabi Weores, Jingkun Xu and Fabrice Amedeo) of the Vendée Globe out of the 39 who still remain in the race, will participate in this scientific experiment which consists of recover valuable data concerning the understanding of ocean dynamics.
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In a targeted drop zone is located between 20° and 40° south latitude, before passing the Cape of Good Hope, all these instruments provided by Ifremer and coordinated by OceanOps. As sailor Guirec Soudée explains, the beacon will go down to depth to collect information before returning to the surface to communicate it by satellite.
This dive and ascent cycle takes around ten days and the beacon, integrated into a vast global program of 4000 floats, will remain active for around 8 years.
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